While driving towards one of the nature walks that I seem to frequent, despite my inability to walk too far, I recently heard a verse as follows:

ہم ہی چراغ کی لؤ ہیں، ہمیں پروانے

یہ اور بات ہے کے محفل ہمیں نہ پہچانے

Hum hi chiragh ki lau hein humhi parwanay

Yeh aur baat hay kay mehfil humay na pehchanay

I am the lamp’s light and I am the moth that goes towards it

Its a completely different matter that people do not recognize it.

I kept repeating these words as I walked around and snapped pictures of what I found beautiful or interesting. One of the pictures stood out amongst the group of those images as I felt it deeply connected with the words above. The reflection of the self as it is captured in an image taken by the same self is quite intriguing. Reminiscent of the flame and the moth but in a different way which I sadly can not explain well 🙂 As I thought more on the words and the image, a rather dismal ghazal formed in my mind that I present below on the subject of things appearing what they are not and sometimes being what they do not appear to be.

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